Puzzle3

[abc8563]

Your post gave me a lot of different ideals.

he 21863, the other number i can see is on image 6 looks like a 4

So i searched block 218634 instead and the only transaction in that block was from this address https://arscan.io/tx/xTZKv_gqWV3bYfSez04zs2XeevuGm4hSle8eDZZMFBk which had MessageInABottle data.... this transaction was made around the same time this puzzle was created "2 weeks apart". and MessageInABottle was literally announced in the same post as the puzzle

On top of the one clue saying "stored somewhere valuable" txid and the message in the bottle site saying "Someday, that encryption will probably be broken -- permanently, publicly, publishing your message to the world. " it's probably nothing, but "message in a bottle" even sounds like it was meant to be decrypted. image 2 shows snowhill md, image 5 looks like it was drawn over to image 2, and if you look at 21863 on google maps and look down some, theres an area that looks just like "Scandinavia" so maybe it means md5"image 5" then theres sha 256 or 384. Image 8 could be base58. image one also looks like "strings" it could all be a method to decrypt.

Also this seems like this biggest clue
(It's not my fault that people see a tree with - - - - and they actually type TREE and
expect to unlock.)
(tree with ----) (they type) (and expect to unlock) this kind of seems like he was implying what i thought from the beginning, that the images are steps to an overall process to uncover the solution.